Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Man with a tan

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Man with a tan


Accounts that have recently vandalised:

Accounts that have recently made edits to the sandbox to become autoconfirmed

Probably the rest of that group of accounts

Other disruptive accounts created the same day, that may be related


 * Code letter: F


 * Supporting evidence:

was blocked indefinitely in August for trolling and WP:BLP violations. In the last few days there has been disruption from a number of accounts that appear to be connected to the same user.

was blocked first for vandalism, then as a sock of, with edits including a similar page move:. The image File:Josh on the range.JPG was vandalised by and.

Vandalism by : - similar to Special:Contributions/Truth about the terror in Vietnam and Special:Contributions/Obese Futures Trader

was claiming to be an administrator and declined an unblock request by.

was blocked for page move vandalism:

, probably another sock of the same user, was blocked in October.

, and  made edits to the sandbox similar to the other accounts, with the intention of becoming autoconfirmed, but have made no other edits and have not been blocked. Some of the edits:

The accounts, with the exception of, were created within less than two hours on 20 November 2007, and with the exception of the last three were created within 20 minutes.

A few of the usernames are in pairs, I have added other accounts created around the same time based on similarities between users. The accounts from to, and   are probably stale, as they have no visible edits. , and a sock of  have made similar edits on Twat, and the decline of an unblock request is similar to, who was tagged as a sock of  as a result of Requests for checkuser/Case/Pope Barry George. A few accounts there also appear to be similar to. The accounts in the Pope Barry George case, and Requests for checkuser/Case/Master Ansar Mahmood, were created the day before those that have vandalised in the last few days).

Other checkuser cases that may be related:
 * Requests for checkuser/Case/Master Ansar Mahmood
 * Requests for checkuser/Case/Pope Benjamin Lister
 * Requests for checkuser/Case/Pope Barry George
 * Requests for checkuser/Case/Boris Allen

Also, an IP (194.176.105.40) has recently used the unblock template with a reference to. — Snigbrook 19:48, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * is . The following are ✅ as being operated by one person:

The following are : The rest are. Most of the IPs used for sockpuppetry are already softblocked. They are high traffic IPs, so a hardblock is out of the question. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 21:28, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * All named accounts blocked, I am not going to tag though. Tiptoety  talk 22:02, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

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